Gender Roles and the Categorization of Gender-Relevant Behavior
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Biological sex has been assumed to be a basic category that importantly influences perceptions people have o f others. However, it has recently been proposed that there are individual differences in this presumed generic propensity to use sex in person perception-that some people have schemas with regard to sex and gender, whereas others do not. Prior attempts to demonstrate these differences have frequently operationalized their variables in such a way that activation of hypothesized elaborate and dense gender schemas (schemas relating to psychological masculinity and femininity) could not be disentangled from activation o f very shallow schemas related simply to biological sex or sex stereotypes. This study provides initial support for the conceptual distinction between cognitive processing based on biological sex vs. psychological gender. Independent manipulation of both sex-stereotyped information and less salient, nonstereotyped gender-relevant behavioral cues demonstrated that two levels o f cognitive operation seem to be used. All subjects, regardless o f gender role, used surface information regarding biological sex to make inferences regarding targets" masculinity and femininity. However, only some subjects made use of gender-related behav-
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